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when you look at president obama and president george w. bush, when you look at their approval ratings mirror each other. they show this. both these presidents had visionary styles, and then they like to delegate. by being out of the loop on many the details it's not surprising to me that we see policy failures in both administration. >> we need to take a break. we'll pick back up on this when we return to "inside story." >> a senator under investigation and only al jazeera america is there. uncovering the corruption opening the files... >> are you going to resign if your're indicted? >> breaking the story real reporting, this is what we do... al jazeera america [[voiceover]] every day, events sweep across our country. and with them, a storm of views. how can you fully understand the impact unless you've heard angles you hadn't considered? antonio mora brings you smart conversation that challenges the status quo with unexpected opinions and a fresh outlook. including yours. determining using some sort of subjective interpretation of their p
when you look at president obama and president george w. bush, when you look at their approval ratings mirror each other. they show this. both these presidents had visionary styles, and then they like to delegate. by being out of the loop on many the details it's not surprising to me that we see policy failures in both administration. >> we need to take a break. we'll pick back up on this when we return to "inside story." >> a senator under investigation and only al...
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when you look at president obama and president george w. bush, when you look at their approval ratings mirror each other. they show this. both these presidents had visionary styles, and then they like to delegate. by being out of the loop on many the details it's not surprising to me that we see policy failures in both administration. >> we need to take a break. we'll pick back up on this when we return to "inside story." (vo) tonight ... >> does the nsa collect any type of data on millions of americans? >> no sir. (vo) fault lines investigates what it's like to live under the watchful eye of the nsa. >> they know everything that you do, everything that you think, everything that you fear. they know how to manipulate and control you. the state has all the power. >> we have done more to destroy our way of life than the terrorists could ever have done. determining using some sort of subjective interpretation of their policy as to whether or not your particular report was actually abusive, because if it doesn't contain language that specifical
when you look at president obama and president george w. bush, when you look at their approval ratings mirror each other. they show this. both these presidents had visionary styles, and then they like to delegate. by being out of the loop on many the details it's not surprising to me that we see policy failures in both administration. >> we need to take a break. we'll pick back up on this when we return to "inside story." (vo) tonight ... >> does the nsa collect any type...
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when you look at president obama and president george w. bush, when you look at their approval ratings mirror each other. they show this. both these presidents had visionary styles, and then they like to delegate. by being out of the loop on many the details it's not surprising to me that we see policy failures in both administration. >> we need to take a break. we'll pick back up on this when we return to "inside story." >> al jazeera america is a straight-forward news channel. >> its the most exciting thing to happen to american journalism in decades. >> we believe in digging deep. >> its unbiased, fact-based, in-depth journalism. >> you give them the facts, dispense with the fluff and get straight to the point. >> i'm on the ground every day finding stories that matter to you. >> in new orleans... >> seattle bureau... >> washington... >> detroit... >> chicago... >> nashville... >> los angeles... >> san francisco... >> al jazeera america, take a new look at news. >> from our headquarters in new york, here are the headlines this hour. >> a
when you look at president obama and president george w. bush, when you look at their approval ratings mirror each other. they show this. both these presidents had visionary styles, and then they like to delegate. by being out of the loop on many the details it's not surprising to me that we see policy failures in both administration. >> we need to take a break. we'll pick back up on this when we return to "inside story." >> al jazeera america is a straight-forward news...
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andrew card, chief of staff for george w. bush. david gergen former adviser to presidents nixon, ford, regan and clinton. couldn't you get one more president in there? >> i'm trying. i might have one more chance. >> and julian zellizer, from princeton tonight. some on twitter said, don, come on. all these guys, was not rumsfeld not available? as a matter of fact, we asked for him and he was not available. >>> valarie jarod is top adviser to president obama. she has known him since his early days in chicago. she has a huge amount of influence. mr. mclarty, does every white house have people close to the president who wield a lot of power in that way, in wait that valarie jarrett does? >> i think the answer is yes. i think the president will have a number of influences as it will. i think certainly the white house staff, i do think this president has had tighter control of the white house. and not used his cabinet quite as much as other presidents have. but you also got the first lady always influential with every president as andy a
andrew card, chief of staff for george w. bush. david gergen former adviser to presidents nixon, ford, regan and clinton. couldn't you get one more president in there? >> i'm trying. i might have one more chance. >> and julian zellizer, from princeton tonight. some on twitter said, don, come on. all these guys, was not rumsfeld not available? as a matter of fact, we asked for him and he was not available. >>> valarie jarod is top adviser to president obama. she has known...
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george w. bush won about 44% of the latino vote. mitt romney lost over 40% of the latino vote. right after president bush left offense, half of hispanic americans had a positive view of the gop. look at the numbers now, 65% have an unfavorable view. those are not numbers that can get a republican candidate to the white house. that's just the reality. so i think like i said, i don't know what the correct answer is here, but i think we can alltel rubio is looking at the same numbers we are and figuring out what the heck do i know. >> let's turn to hillary clinton to see if we can read the tea leaves on what we've been witnessing over her schedule. she gave three speeches in three days last week. keli, politico suggesting one tactic for hillary is to go back to her 2000 campaign for senator. and then also, can you talk about that and how shaquille o'neal's endorsement of chris christie could affect the hillary clinton campaign? >> the 2000 campaign was a very effective one. i was an intern on that campaign and did a heck of a job fetching coffee and answering phones. but in all se
george w. bush won about 44% of the latino vote. mitt romney lost over 40% of the latino vote. right after president bush left offense, half of hispanic americans had a positive view of the gop. look at the numbers now, 65% have an unfavorable view. those are not numbers that can get a republican candidate to the white house. that's just the reality. so i think like i said, i don't know what the correct answer is here, but i think we can alltel rubio is looking at the same numbers we are and...
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to a level about where george w. bush was at this point in his fifth year. what do you make of the numbers you're seeing for the president right now, just as a democrat, as a member of his party, what do you attribute it to and are you worried about it? >> you know, i think every president has a rough patch. i'm old enough to remember ronald reagan, in the toilet, several times during his presidency. bill clinton had his rough patches, god knows it. so these things go up and down. the question is trend and the question is whether it's sustained. i think that if the -- for example, the glitches in the website for the affordable care act can be ironed out, i think the president is going to rebound. so i don't read too much into it just yet. these polls go up and down. >> so we talked about virginia a lot there. and just to really set the stage for this, we are talking about a state here, as we said in that package, you have to go all the way back to 1973, in your home state of virginia, to find an election where the pa
to a level about where george w. bush was at this point in his fifth year. what do you make of the numbers you're seeing for the president right now, just as a democrat, as a member of his party, what do you attribute it to and are you worried about it? >> you know, i think every president has a rough patch. i'm old enough to remember ronald reagan, in the toilet, several times during his presidency. bill clinton had his rough patches, god knows it. so these things go up and down. the...
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if dick cheney were doing this, if we found out that george w. bush and dick cheney were doing this, nobody would bat an eyelash. >> they were in 2002. >> nobody bats an eyelash about it, right? but when the constitutional scholar, the idealist, the poetic man -- >> she grew up in east germany where they would tap everything. so there is a cultural clash here. my own view about this i'm giving up. okay. take whatever you want. i think the transparency that one requires in this new media and in this new world, i'm just saying i give up -- totally given up. no expectations of privacy at all. >> just text the nsa stop looking. >> i don't even care. >> i'm reading your e-mails right now. >> someone probably is. it's easily done. i'm staggered by how much they can do. so at some point this is also a general cultural adjustment to new technologies and the ability to -- i mean, these are not documents on paper that are securely. these are things you can tap into anywhere. >> i was going to say i think one of the reasons there's not more public outrage a
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everybody's forgotten, by the way, that when george w. bush a republican put that medicare part "d" drug program in, it was more unpopular than the health care law and they had terrible problems with the computers. our side, we're not so ideological. so instead of screaming about how incompetent they were, we tried to help people understand the law and make it work. >> welcome back to "hardball." isn't he great? that was former president bill clinton stumping for terry mcauliffe. coming up next, we're going to talk about what really happened in benghazi. first let's look at how the health care exchanges are working. as former president clinton just said there, the medicare part "d" program had its fair share of glitches. but the democrat rs wanted to make the program work and didn't root for its failure as the republicans are doing with the affordable care act today. and despite the problems with the federal website, the system is working and even, catch this, exceeding expectations in states that set up their own websites. dr. thank you
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at that point george w. bush was focused on iraq just like his vice president. in fact, he actually was going as far as vice president cheney wanted to. in july of 2002, 7, 8 months before the actual invasion began, cheney rumsfeld want and said you need to attack iraq now because there is a chemical weapons a facility in northern iraq and bush said no. so there were moments where bush resisted the train and said we are going to do it my way. >> woodruff: and yet there were moments when president bush was going around the world making sure everybody was comfortable long after the vice president was absolutely certain this was the right thing. >> yes, yes. i do think that cheney's certitude, his un-- unflinching we have to do there, view of this, certainly encouraged those instincts within bush. and there is no question about that. >> woodruff: what, why did president bush grow to be less dependent on the vice president? >> right, the evolution of their relationship is really fascinating. it's really almost shakespeare'sian. on the day the war starts march 2003,
at that point george w. bush was focused on iraq just like his vice president. in fact, he actually was going as far as vice president cheney wanted to. in july of 2002, 7, 8 months before the actual invasion began, cheney rumsfeld want and said you need to attack iraq now because there is a chemical weapons a facility in northern iraq and bush said no. so there were moments where bush resisted the train and said we are going to do it my way. >> woodruff: and yet there were moments when...
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. >> crystal, here is a george w. bush judge looking at what this legislature did and saying that it cannot stand. >> yes. and the piece that you highlighted that it was an undue burden, that is the judicial standard and what this judge found is that with a third of abortion clinics in texas likely to close as a result of this law, and no medical reason to require abortion providers to have admitting privileges, it just couldn't stand. what they call these laws is trap laws. essentially what they are is they are not designed to do anything other than force the closure of abortion clinics. in texas and in states across the country, 27 of these states have similar type trap laws where they pretend to be all about women's health but really their only purpose is to try to restrict access to abortion. >> now the attorney general running for governor, listen to an ad he is running now. >> we won't allow texas to be taken over by california style government. we will win this election because the people and values of texas ar
. >> crystal, here is a george w. bush judge looking at what this legislature did and saying that it cannot stand. >> yes. and the piece that you highlighted that it was an undue burden, that is the judicial standard and what this judge found is that with a third of abortion clinics in texas likely to close as a result of this law, and no medical reason to require abortion providers to have admitting privileges, it just couldn't stand. what they call these laws is trap laws....
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>> and the republican investigations of the 13 attacks on american embassies under the george w. bush administration? how did those go? >> i'm glad they had these investigations. >> they didn't have them. there were none. >> there were no diplomats killed on these attacks. our ambassador was murdered. i think that is well established. >> of course it was, yeah. >> wait a minute. weren't cia operatives and navy s.e.a.l.s at least cia operatives killed in eastern afghanistan, blown up? it was shown in the movie the hunt for bin laden. >> certainly. >> on a u.s. forward operating base. >> i'd like to know what the cia was doing in benghazi. i'd like an investigation. i'd like an investigation into the cia's war crimes. a much more serious matter. that the head of the cia destroyed the evidence of their torturing. destroyed it. [ overlapping speakers ] >> what responsibility do you believe that president obama has to make this information available to you to satisfy your curiosity? what was going on in benghazi thought was under attack? >> i'm not curious about it. i'm not. >> possib
>> and the republican investigations of the 13 attacks on american embassies under the george w. bush administration? how did those go? >> i'm glad they had these investigations. >> they didn't have them. there were none. >> there were no diplomats killed on these attacks. our ambassador was murdered. i think that is well established. >> of course it was, yeah. >> wait a minute. weren't cia operatives and navy s.e.a.l.s at least cia operatives killed in...
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everybody has forgotten, by the way, that when president george w. bush, a republican, put that medicare part d drug program in, it was more unpopular than the health care law, and they had terrible problems with the computers. >> terrible problems with computers. you see? but never fear. our 30 rock neighbors over at "saturday night live," they got the answers. >> if our site keeps freezing, we've also provided links to other helpful websites, such as kayak.com. where you can purchase airline tickets to canada and buy cheaper prescription drugs. >> now, listen. canada has already given us ted cruz, so i think they've done just about enough. let's get right to our panel. with us from washington is dana milbank, political columnist for "the washington post." msnbc analyst and former are rnc chair, michael steele. and in san francisco, msnbc contributor and president of voter latino, maria teresa kumar. the troubles with the affordable care act website go beyond being parroted on "saturday night live." health sites woes could dissuade vital enrollee, t
everybody has forgotten, by the way, that when president george w. bush, a republican, put that medicare part d drug program in, it was more unpopular than the health care law, and they had terrible problems with the computers. >> terrible problems with computers. you see? but never fear. our 30 rock neighbors over at "saturday night live," they got the answers. >> if our site keeps freezing, we've also provided links to other helpful websites, such as kayak.com. where you...
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everybody's forgotten, by the way, that when george w. bush a republican put that medicare part "d" drug program in, it was more unpopular than the health care law and they had terrible problems with the computers. our side, we're not so ideological. so instead of screaming about how incompetent they were, we tried to help people understand the law and make it work. >> welcome back to "hardball." isn't he great? that was former president bill clinton stumping for terry mcauliffe. coming up next, we're going to talk about what really happened in benghazi. first let's look at how the health care exchanges are working. as former president clinton just said there, the medicare part "d" program had its fair share of glitches. but the democrat rs wanted to make the program work and didn't root for its failure as the republicans are doing with the affordable care act today. and despite the problems with the federal website, the system is working and even, catch this, exceeding expectations in states that set up their own websites. dr. e sethank
everybody's forgotten, by the way, that when george w. bush a republican put that medicare part "d" drug program in, it was more unpopular than the health care law and they had terrible problems with the computers. our side, we're not so ideological. so instead of screaming about how incompetent they were, we tried to help people understand the law and make it work. >> welcome back to "hardball." isn't he great? that was former president bill clinton stumping for terry...
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jeffrey sachs and adviser to george w. bush, mark mckinnon. in washington, moderator of "meet the press," david gregory. i would like to say something for the record. >> what's that? >> the angry e-mails come directly from valerie and valerie alone. >> what are you talking about? >> nothing. when she's angry at you, she loves you. she has her own, she sends you very hateful e-mail at times. >> hateful, despicable. they are from valerie, alone. >> valerie has always been very nice. >> she's so, so nice. >> she's a lot nicer to me than i would be. >>> joining us from chicago, senior editor for national view and columnist ramesh ponnuru. >> something else happened on "morning joe" for the first time, we have been doing it since 1947. i think we may have at least three people that have voted for a republican in their lifetime. >> good god, i have hives. i have hives. >> two worked for them. i'm sure they voted for a republican candidate and ramesh and myself who never voted for a democratic president. jeff sachs, let's talk to you. i haven't had y
jeffrey sachs and adviser to george w. bush, mark mckinnon. in washington, moderator of "meet the press," david gregory. i would like to say something for the record. >> what's that? >> the angry e-mails come directly from valerie and valerie alone. >> what are you talking about? >> nothing. when she's angry at you, she loves you. she has her own, she sends you very hateful e-mail at times. >> hateful, despicable. they are from valerie, alone. >>...
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everybody hates george w. bush. this is all we need for a brand new world. little did we know while he was giving that speech in berlin his people were bugging every office. think about the damage this has done and this is one more of those bush/cheney programs that this administration has taken to ridiculous lengths. >> the real world implications is massive. the damage has been done that's not just political but mic economically. the idea that the president doesn't know about these things over and over again -- i imagine people think it's a better explanation than saying he did know. that's hard for me to see how it's a positive. if that is true that's alarming. given that they are arguing this wholesale review we have not heard a revamp of this from the president. he made his speech, he made his press conference. he needs to go back and explain exactly what's happening. these revelations keep coming and more will continue. >> one more story before we go to break. over the weekend the affordable care act main website went into a bit of an overhaul. >> that
everybody hates george w. bush. this is all we need for a brand new world. little did we know while he was giving that speech in berlin his people were bugging every office. think about the damage this has done and this is one more of those bush/cheney programs that this administration has taken to ridiculous lengths. >> the real world implications is massive. the damage has been done that's not just political but mic economically. the idea that the president doesn't know about these...
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just like george w. bush did when he ran for governor of texas. and then ran for the presidency. and i think if you look at the republican party, they're going to have to take a look at someone like chris christie. who is winning in a blue state, by appealing not just to the base of the republican party, but actually appealing to those independent voters. that have been so elusive to republicans in the past. so the party has to kind of make a decision about that. because if you look at the state of virginia, which you were just talking about, the republican candidate who seems to be behind is a tea party candidate. and so, you know, these are the sort of two flip sides of the republican party, at some point they're going to have to make a choice about what they can win with in 2016. >> that virginia race is a whole lot closer, mcauliffe in the polls slightly ahead. but you know what, that race could wind up pretty tight. >> well, i think the race could wind up tight. look, terry mcauliffe has brought in every big gun in the democratic party there is. big and hillary clinton, old
just like george w. bush did when he ran for governor of texas. and then ran for the presidency. and i think if you look at the republican party, they're going to have to take a look at someone like chris christie. who is winning in a blue state, by appealing not just to the base of the republican party, but actually appealing to those independent voters. that have been so elusive to republicans in the past. so the party has to kind of make a decision about that. because if you look at the...
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do you think the former president george w. bush didn't know? >> i don't know. but i think he might have. i had access, sat in with him on obviously classified briefings, the daily presidential briefing, and i don't want to give anything away that i shouldn't, but i'm not, you know, there were obvious moments when there was information that could only have come from an intercept. we would be let's say preparing for a meeting with a foreign leader, and they would say we have reason to believe the foreign leader has on his mind, it intends to raise at this meeting the following points or following objections to u.s. policy. that could be an intercepted leader or intercept of one of his advisors but there is clearly penetration of a foreign government's internal communications. i don't know. maybe they never revealed that fact in their briefings of president obama but it would be hard, if they had that information and didn't, it's a little hard to understand. >> it's hard to believe that they wouldn't tell the president of the united states, especially as he goes i
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. >> when president george w. bush, a republican, put that medicare part d drug program in, they had terrible problems with the computers. >> must be an on button somewhere. >> instead of bashing and screaming about how incompetent they were. >> let's not lose our cool. >> tried to help people understand the law and make it work. >> the former president blasts republican i had log. >> putting people first, as opposed to some abstract philosophy. >> and today's top trender. glitch mob. >> millions of americans are visiting healthcare.gov. unfortunately, the site was only designed to handle six users at a time. >> it's very frustrating. it is certainly not what we wanted to be. >> when you become a parody on "saturday night live," it's awful hard to recover. >> i.t., can we get someone from i.t. in here? >> righty's target kathleen sebelius for healthcare.gov's poor health. >> the website was supposed to be the easy part. she has lost considerable credibility. >> absolutely, she should resign. >> this is a woman tha
. >> when president george w. bush, a republican, put that medicare part d drug program in, they had terrible problems with the computers. >> must be an on button somewhere. >> instead of bashing and screaming about how incompetent they were. >> let's not lose our cool. >> tried to help people understand the law and make it work. >> the former president blasts republican i had log. >> putting people first, as opposed to some abstract philosophy....
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what report suggests that george w. bush tapped the phones of world leaders? >> when did this start? >> four or five years ago. about the same time -- >> 2002. >> 2002. >> the tapping of foreign leaders? >> yes. and so you have to apply the same questions to president bush, first of all, whether they do or do not know. and i think barnicle brought up the biggest point, and that is, is the nsa overreaching in its power? is this something people want done but they don't want to hear about it? you've got to look at that part of it too because we could apply this to a couple of different issues that we complained about or argued about on our set about the conduct of the bush administration. but i would say that most importantly are the important disconnect that i think is happening in this story is that people are thinking someone is sitting there listening to her conversations. the phone calls are being monitored. that's different than tapping the phone calls. >> if this was gene -- >> gene. am i wrong? >> i did write about this morning actually. >> oh. i was rea
what report suggests that george w. bush tapped the phones of world leaders? >> when did this start? >> four or five years ago. about the same time -- >> 2002. >> 2002. >> the tapping of foreign leaders? >> yes. and so you have to apply the same questions to president bush, first of all, whether they do or do not know. and i think barnicle brought up the biggest point, and that is, is the nsa overreaching in its power? is this something people want done but...
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. >> and they are not yearning for a degree of george w. bush again but they would like some element of this is where we want to go and this is the way we can do it. >> i think you are right. i think it is concern about american intro version, american apathy, american lack of engagement is a bigger concern than not listen to us. >> you want people to listen to you, and there is always leader will whine about that, but the bigger and broader concern is that the u.s., which the world relies on the u.s., everybody relies on the u.s., the u.s. is unwilling both in national security or geopolitical arena and in the economic arena, is not a, as focused as it might be on things of the rest of the world. >> rose: what is the most surprising thing you heard at this conference when you had all of these smart people talk something. >> one is, i did two pans focused a lot on europe, priefg optimism, people very up beat about europe, i was very surprised about that. the second was a lecture from alan greenspan and he argued that the reason firms are no
. >> and they are not yearning for a degree of george w. bush again but they would like some element of this is where we want to go and this is the way we can do it. >> i think you are right. i think it is concern about american intro version, american apathy, american lack of engagement is a bigger concern than not listen to us. >> you want people to listen to you, and there is always leader will whine about that, but the bigger and broader concern is that the u.s., which the...
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. >> george w. bush took like the peter king approach, the world was black and white. if it was furthering our aim of capturing bad guys, that was the end of the story. this president because he is conflicted in some ways he's not getting praise or doing the right thing by either side's opinion. he seems publicly sort of like he's not even sure where he should be did. >> i don't think he knows where he is. he didn't even know this was going on. >> come on, he knew. we talk honestly in public about what we do with intelligence, of course he knew. >> i don't think that makes it better for him not to have known. i'm not sure they would put that out there if it's not true. >> there's a factual question, if he knew and he and his team are continuing to misrepresent that, that's deeply problematic. they have the right and ability to not get into it. on the other hand, if you take the current statements at face value, they are also very bad for a different reason, the nsa is not keeping potus on the loop on the top secret with our allies and that is something which the presid
. >> george w. bush took like the peter king approach, the world was black and white. if it was furthering our aim of capturing bad guys, that was the end of the story. this president because he is conflicted in some ways he's not getting praise or doing the right thing by either side's opinion. he seems publicly sort of like he's not even sure where he should be did. >> i don't think he knows where he is. he didn't even know this was going on. >> come on, he knew. we talk...
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w. we've had misunderstandings on one or the other side. different perceptions on certain issues, namely iraq, guantanamo or even climate change and other things. we always had a pragmatic way to find a solution. now we are at the level that european leaders don't only lose faith in a partner but also their face. so the face losing aspect of it is actually to take the example of angela merkel. she was defending the nsa program this summer. this summer. she was publicly defending it despite being in an election and it was not very popular. she defended the nsa program. and then to learn two or three months later that she personally was tapped and then to learn that actually the american president knew about it already in summer, that's one of the moments which i would consider being face losing relevance. >> you know angela merkel well. you served as her defense minister. how angry do you think she is? >> she is, i think, really disappointed. and she is very analytical person but she show
w. we've had misunderstandings on one or the other side. different perceptions on certain issues, namely iraq, guantanamo or even climate change and other things. we always had a pragmatic way to find a solution. now we are at the level that european leaders don't only lose faith in a partner but also their face. so the face losing aspect of it is actually to take the example of angela merkel. she was defending the nsa program this summer. this summer. she was publicly defending it despite...
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. >> george w. bush, we were talking about the yesterday, did george w. bush cap -- >> did the bush administration do this type of a baum dream. >>. >> of course, we did. again, i will not get into any specifics here. but this is normal behavior between nation states. this is an "r" rated movie. this is how adult nations treat each other. it's fully accepted. let me give you a concrete example. remember president obama was kind of wetted to his blackberry when he was coming into office. folks like me were saying, this is a big deal, we thought we worked out a compromise, nsa threw a couple defensive tools into the blackberry. now he uses his blackberry. let me give you the backdrop to that story, joe, mika. the most powerful man on earth, the most powerful man in the most powerful nation on earth was just told that his communications were susceptible to intercept by dozens of foreign embassies inside his own national capitol. we didn't render garments. we didn't protest. we realized. that's the way things are. >> you aren't shocked by angela merkel's phon
. >> george w. bush, we were talking about the yesterday, did george w. bush cap -- >> did the bush administration do this type of a baum dream. >>. >> of course, we did. again, i will not get into any specifics here. but this is normal behavior between nation states. this is an "r" rated movie. this is how adult nations treat each other. it's fully accepted. let me give you a concrete example. remember president obama was kind of wetted to his blackberry when...
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name the existence of george w. bush, he said. there is, without it seem to me, an obama derangement syndrome as well. do you think that one is any more acute than the other? have you been to be able diagnose more cases the other? >> well, to start, it was largely tongue-in-cheek giving it a serious diagnosis. as you know, when you try ironing in general, the iron is missed. i actually had a phrase. it came from howard dean and i write about it in the column. howard dean had been on a show and said that he was a little bit unsure as to whether bush had known about 9/11 in advance which is weird. and dean is a serious guy. so i had a phrase in there that said that dean was a little bit troubling to epidemiologists because dean was the first example of such a syndrome happening in the very state. now, because he's -- from vermont. that was obviously a clue that this was meant to be tongue-in-cheek. but on the serious issue, which is that there were people who were so opposed to anything that bush had done, yes, it applies to obama.
name the existence of george w. bush, he said. there is, without it seem to me, an obama derangement syndrome as well. do you think that one is any more acute than the other? have you been to be able diagnose more cases the other? >> well, to start, it was largely tongue-in-cheek giving it a serious diagnosis. as you know, when you try ironing in general, the iron is missed. i actually had a phrase. it came from howard dean and i write about it in the column. howard dean had been on a...